Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Socrative is a student response system
that allows students to use their own devices.Teachers can create quizzes that the students answer in real time. On the webpage you can choose to create an
account with Socrative 1.0 or 2.0.They
offer the same features but the layout of 2.0 is more compact.

The teacher begins by creating an account and that will
create a “Room Number”.It’s going to be
some dreadful number that you won’t be able to remember but you can edit it by
going to “My Profile” using the “Menu” button at the top of the page.

Once you have created an account, there are four options:

·Start Quiz

·Quick Question

·Space Race

·Exit Ticket

·Manage Quizzes

At the end of each of these the teacher is provided a report
of the results from each activity including a grade for everyone who
participated as well has what their responses were.These reports can be downloaded into an Excel
document, emailed, or (if you linked your Google account with it) sent to your
Google Drive. The reports are also
stored in the “Reports” section under “Manage Quizzes”.

Start Quiz

This allows you to administer quizzes that have be created
ahead of time.You can have questions
that are multiple choice, true or false, and short answer.You are not limited to one format when creating
your quiz.If you want 3 true or false
questions, 2 multiple choice questions, and one short answer then you can make
it so.You can require that they enter
their names before answering and you can randomize questions and/or answers.You can also have questions progress at the
student’s pace or at the teacher’s pace.

Quick Question

You can create quizzes ahead of time to administer during
class or you can use the “Quick Question” option to have students respond to a
verbal question.If you just want to
find out if your students’ understand what you are talking about but you are
worried that some of them are relying on others to answer verbally, then “Quick
Question” can help with that.You can
simply have students log-in with your “Room Number” and they can answer your
verbal question.This has the same
format as the quizzes, multiple choice, true or false, and short answer.You can have students respond anonymously or
require they enter their name.You can
also limit it so they can only respond once if you want.

Space Race

You can use your premade quizzes to create a “Space Race”.Students can be set in teams (up to 15) by
choosing or being assigned a color and they answer the questions for the quiz
as their “spaceship” races across the teacher’s screen. If a correct answer is given then the ship
moves forward, if an incorrect answer is given then the ship does not progress.When an incorrect answer is given the
students receive a message saying it is wrong and telling them the correct
answer.You might wish to project the “race”
on the board for the class to see.

Exit Ticket

The “Exit Ticket” is a set of three questions that are generated
by the software to assess how a student perceived the class.They are asked how well they understood, they
must type something they learned, and they answer a question posed by the
teacher.

Manage Quizzes

This is where you create new quizzes, import quizzes from
others using the provided code, edit, duplicate, or delete your quizzes, and
view past reports.

Student Log-In

This tool provides teachers an ability to assess students in
a more interactive way so instruction can be tailored when needed rather than
after the major test.It provides data
to support the class and grades the quizzes for you.This is a fantastic idea to see what is
happening with students’ learning in a real-time environment.It could even be used to assess the service
or performance of the library, you would simply provide patrons with the “Room
Number” and ask they to answer the survey on their device.

Hope you can find create ways to use this at your institution. Please share your thoughts and ideas below. We would love to hear from you!

About Me

DELRT stands for Distance E-Learning Round Table. We are one of the units of the Texas Library Association. Our goal is to share information on distance e-learning with librarians, library staff, and folks who love libraries. If you have any questions you can email TLA.DELRT@gmail.com.